THIS IS A HAMMER

Home Maintenance in the New Year

Ready for the new year? Me neither. It’s too soon after what’s been a really long and frenetic holiday season, starting with a pre-Halloween snowstorm that had me and my neighbors juggling snow shovels and carved pumpkins, and then moving straight into Thanksgiving and Christmas almost too fast to blink. I’m looking forward to catching my breath this week, however, and putting together my home maintenance plans for next year.

January will be pretty quiet, except for the monthly furnace filter change and making sure ice dams and snow aren’t building up on the ro...